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Recently, Netflix’s One Piece became the gold standard for this shift, as it has successfully translated the whimsy of Eiichiro Oda’s world into a high-budget epic. With One Piece’s massive success as precedent, it’s the turn for other classic anime titles to receive a proper jump to live-action.
Samurai Champloo Is Officially Getting A Live-Action Adaptation
Tomorrow Studios Will Produce Samurai Champloo’s Live-Action Series
The hip-hop-infused Edo period is set to return to the small screen, as Variety reports that Tomorrow Studios will officially produce a live-action Samurai Champloo series. Following the massive global success of their One Piece adaptation and the hard-learned lessons from the short-lived Cowboy Bebop adaptation, the Tomorrow has secured Samurai Champloo original creator Shinichiro Watanabe to capture the essence of his 2004 anime.
One Piece producers Marty Adelstein and Becky Clements return to helm the live-action Samurai Champloo, parallel to their work on One Piece. In fact, it was their idea to bring on Shinichiro Watanabe early in the process. Tomorrow Studios is reportedly treating the soundtrack as a foundational element in order to properly translate the original series to live-action. Hence, finding “a major recording artist” fpr the project is likely one of the next steps in the process.
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